Meloni’s government allows only the most vulnerable people to go to the port of Catania, while the Pope invites all EU countries to participate in the reception
Giorgia Meloni won the elections held in Italy on September 25 with the promise of a heavy-handed response to illegal immigration and has not been slow to move from words to deeds. The new prime minister confirmed this Sunday in her view that only vulnerable migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean by NGO ships flying the flags of other countries can disembark at Italian ports. According to the Rome Executive, the others will have to be welcomed by the countries where these ships are registered, which could be a violation of international maritime law.
After four humanitarian ships spent more than a week on the high seas awaiting a safe harbor where they could disembark for the more than 1,000 immigrants who had helped in the Sicilian Channel, this Sunday they were finally able to accommodate some of the displaced. that were on those boats, the ‘Humanity 1’ by the German NGO of the same name and the ‘Geo Barents’, chartered by Doctors Without Borders. The Italian authorities allowed only vulnerable people, such as women and children, to leave the ships and insisted that the ships return to the high seas afterwards. Those responsible for ‘Humanity 1’ refused to do so until the 35 migrants on board also landed, calling the Italian government’s position “illegal”.
The pope also demanded that all migrants be allowed to disembark and urged the European Union not to drop the reception just to Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus. “Every EU government has to agree on how many immigrants it can take in,” Francis emphasized during the flight back to Rome after his trip to Bahrain. In addition to the ‘Humanity 1’ and the ‘Geo Barents’, two other humanitarian ships are waiting off the Italian coast to take the displaced people they helped to a safe place.
In the port of Catania there were protests by groups for the reception of these people, in which the left-wing deputy Aboubakar Soumahoro took part, who denounced speculation “about the skin of newborns, women and children”. Soumahoro believed that we are facing a return to the ‘closed ports’ policy launched in 2018 when Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, was Minister of the Interior.
Source: La Verdad
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